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Day One
Introduction
– Examples of Pump Installations
– SI and Engineering unit systems
– Review of fluid mechanics
– Derivation of friction factor equations
– Flow in Circular Pipes
– Flow in Annular Ducts
– Calculation of pressure loss in a pipeline due to friction
– Calculation of pressure loss due to minor losses
– Minor loss tables and calculations
– Equivalent length
– Moody diagram
– Curve fit equations for the Moody diagram
Types of Valves
– Flow through a valve
– Valve categories
– Advantages and disadvantages of types of valves
Day Two
Centrifugal pumps
– Testing of centrifugal pumps
– Performance curves for centrifugal pumps
– Derivation of dimensionless groups for centrifugal pumps
– Affinity laws for pumps
– Specific speed and how it is used to correlate data
– Pump efficiency
– System curve for a piping system
– Pump selection using the system curve
– Best practices
Day Three
Designing a centrifugal pump impeller
– Selecting inlet and outlet vane angles
– Vane layout drawings using Kaplan triangles
– Vane layout drawings using tangent circular arcs
Shaft stresses
– Bending stresses
– Axial stresses
– Torsional stresses
Disk stresses
Economic factors